nevip
welfare rights adviser, sefton metropolitan borough council, liverpool.
Member since 22nd Jan 2004
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RE: DLA renewal forms expired
Wed 21-Apr-10 03:17 PM |
This is administrative nonsense. Reg 4 of the Claims and Payments Regulations is in the following terms:
“Subject to paragraphs (10) to (11B), every claim for benefit other than a claim for income support or jobseeker’s allowance shall be made in writing on a form approved by the Secretary of State or the Board for the purpose of the benefit for which the claim is made, or in such other manner, being in writing, as the Secretary of State or the Board may accept as sufficient in the circumstances of any particular case”.
It would be pedantic in the extreme to demand that “a form approved by the Secretary of State or the Board for the purpose of the benefit for which the claim is made” only apples to a fresh claim form and not a renewal claim form when the format of both is barely indistinguishable. As long as all the relevant information is provided then the claim should be accepted as “sufficient in the circumstances of any particular case”.
Who trains these individuals in this nonsense.
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